On Thursday 25 Mar 2010, Vivek Sharma wrote: > I am running a mail server with user inboxes on NAS Box. Earlier > Whenever I used to check load average it used to be less than 1 for > all - 1,5 and 15 minutes. But now whenever I used to check load > average using uptime it is giving a very high value and is ever > increasing. Does it indicate any problem. Do I really need to worry. > What is the remedy to correct it.
Before you correct it you have to find out what is causing the load. top and vmstat are your friends. Once you've identified the processes that are causing the load you can start to tune them or, if necessary, upgrade the server. > The contents of this Email communication are > confidential to the addressee. If you are not the intended recipient > you may not disclose or distribute this communication in any form > but should immediately contact the Sender. The information, images, > documents and views expressed in this Email are personal to the > Sender and do not expressly or implicitly represent official > positions and policies of DRDO and no authority exists on behalf of > DRDO to make any agreements, representations or other binding > commitment by means of Email. Please note that quasi-legal disclaimers are not permitted on this list. I suggest you post from some ID that does not attach this crap to your outgoing mails. Regards, -- Raju -- Raj Mathur r...@kandalaya.org http://kandalaya.org/ GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17F PsyTrance & Chill: http://schizoid.in/ || It is the mind that moves ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list linux-india-help@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
